IPL 2018 Match 08- KXIP vs RCB Match Highlights: Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Kings XI Punjab by 4 wickets

Royal Challengers Bangalore won their first match of IPL 2018 against Kings XI Punjab by 4 wickets.

Toss: Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and opt to bowl
Venue: M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
Umpires: S Ravi, Abhijit Deshmukh
Third Umpire: Chettithody Shamsuddin
Match Referee: Vengalil Narayan Kutty


Kings XI Punjab-

Playing XI: Lokesh Rahul (wk), Mayank Agarwal, Aaron Finch, Yuvraj Singh, Karun Nair, Marcus Stoinis, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin (c), Andrew Tye, Mohit Sharma, Mujeeb Ur Rahman.

Kings XI Punjab scored 155 against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Lokesh Rahul (47) and skipper Ravichandran Ashwin (33) were the top scorers for Punjab. Middle-order batsmen Karun Nair's 29 and Marcus Stoinis's 11 runs. For RCB Umesh Yadav taken 3 wickets while Chris Woakes, Kulwant Khejroliya and Washington Sundar took 2 wickets each. 


Royal Challengers Bangalore-

Playing XI: Brendon McCullum, Quinton de Kock (wk), Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Chris Woakes, Washington Sundar, Kulwant Khejroliya, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal

Brendon McCullum and Quinton de Kock came to open for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Axar Patel got the wicket of Brendon McCullum on the second ball of the first over of RCB’s inning. RCB lost quick wickets in the form of Quinton de Kock and Sarfaraaz Khan in KXIP’s captain R Ashwin’s first over.After that AB de Villiers and Mandeep Singh played a match-winning partnership of 59 runs in 40 balls.
De Villiers scored 57 runs for 40 balls by hitting hit 2 fours and 4 sixes.At last RCB chased down the 156-run target in 19.3 overs.

Final Score-

KXIP: 155 (19.2 Ovs)
RCB: 159/6 (19.3 Ovs)


Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 4 Wickets
Player Of The Match: Umesh Yadav